Dem. Brags Trump Picked Him for Leadership Role, Then Gets National Humiliation

The liberal media have been all abuzz over the past few days regarding rumors that President-elect Donald Trump would be meeting with noted environmental activist and prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the assassinated senator and member of the near-royal Democrat family.

According to People, that meeting took place Tuesday at Trump Tower in New York, but the descriptions of the result depend entirely on who was asked about it.

Kennedy told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower after the meeting that he had been offered a position as chairman of a commission regarding vaccine safety, saying he desired “to make sure we have scientific integrity in the vaccine process for efficacy and safety effects.”

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“President-elect Trump has some doubts about the current vaccine policies and he has questions about it,” added Kennedy. “His opinion doesn’t matter, but the science does matter and we ought to be reading the science and we ought to be debating the science.”

However, The Hill reported that the same message wasn’t emanating from the Trump camp following the meeting, as the Trump team issued a denial that any position had been formally offered or that any potential commission would even be focused on vaccines.

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In a statement released to the media, the Trump transition team said, in part: “The president-elect is exploring the possibility of forming a committee on autism, which affects so many families; however, no decisions have been made at this time.”

There have been some conspiratorial allegations from the fringe of both the left and right regarding supposed links between vaccines and autism, but those assertions are generally tenuous and don’t typically stand up under scientific scrutiny.

Trump has expressed his own bit of skepticism regarding vaccines in the past, but made clear during the presidential campaign that he was generally in favor of vaccines for children, though he would prefer that they be delivered in smaller doses spread out over a longer time-frame.

The media may have worked themselves into a frenzy over the idea that Trump would name a staunch vaccine skeptic to head a commission on vaccines, but we are just laughing at how they fell for and perpetuated “fake news” once again, immediately taking Kennedy’s words and running with them as fact before double-checking with the Trump team first.

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